First Senate Ruling of February 10, 1892 Approving the Petitioner’s “Application to Change His Name”

Source Description

This one-page, handwritten ruling is the reply to a request submitted in
1892 by then 21-year-old Hans Julius Oppenheim.
He had asked permission to use the family name Lübbert-Oppenheim instead of
Oppenheim, his last name until then. The senate approved his name
change, but not in the form he requested: his family name was to be
Oppenheim-Lübbert instead. The ruling was written on a stamped form issued
by the Hamburg
senate and bearing the city seal.

This document (No. A I
11.1) is in the collection of the Oppenheim-Lübbert family archive, which is
housed in the Hamburg State
Archive, call number StAHH collection 622-1/533
Oppenheim-Lübbert.